Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.